NAME

       pyntor - modular slides viewer and presentation tool

SYNOPSIS

       pyntor [OPTIONS] presentation-file|presentation-archive

DESCRIPTION

       Pyntor  is  a  presentation  tool  which  can display slides and effects of various formats thanks to its
       collection of components which are loaded as specified in the presentation-file, commonly called  script.
       Components can either affect the rendering or the input handling, or both.  They are documented in detail
       in components.txt in the pyntor documentation directory, while this manual page  tries  to  only  briefly
       document  the  user  interface  to the program on the command line and some keyboard shortcuts to be used
       while the pyntor is running.

       Since presentations are normally distributed as presentation-archive files, usually named *.pyntor, those
       too are accepted as parameters to pyntor.  To learn about the creation of presentations and archives, see
       below for some references.

OPTIONS

       -c, --components
              Creates and outputs a formatted list of slides, tracking the components in  use  like  in  a  real
              presentation.  Additionally, all components are checked for presence and usability. This option is
              mainly useful for debugging, but also to get a quick overview of a presentation.

       -d, --direct=scriptline
              IF a presentation only uses a single component, no script  needs  to  be  created.   Instead,  the
              component  invocation  line which would normally be written into the script can be passed directly
              on the command line.

       -x, --export=file.pdf|htmldir
              Exports a presentation to a (fixed-size) PDF file, if the  option  argument  suffix  is  .pdf,  or
              otherwise to a directory of PNG images and a simple HTML file with thumbnail preview images.

       -w, --windowed
              When  running  the  presentation,  do  not switch to fullscreen, but run in a window instead. This
              option is also mainly useful for debugging.

       -v, --version
              Displays the version number of Pyntor.

       -h, --help
              Displays a summary of all available command line options.  This option works without  providing  a
              script.

       -u, --usage
              Displays  common  usage scenarios so that the desired effect can be achieved quickly. The examples
              are for running a presentation  and  debugging  one,  respectively.   This  option  works  without
              providing a script.

SHORTCUTS

       The  following  keyboard  shortcuts  are  supported  globally  throughout  Pyntor.   Note that individual
       components can make use of additional shortcuts, please consult the component documentation about this.

       F      Toggle between fullscreen mode and windowed mode for displaying slides.

       P      Pyntor menu to allow jumping to arbitrary slides of the presentation.

       S      Pyntor menu to allow type-as-you-find fulltext search, followed by slide jumping as with P.   This
              is  useful  for  the  situation  of  having people reminded of some slide without knowing the page
              number after a talk.

       T      Gadget displaying the clock time and already spent presentation time in the lower right corner  of
              the  screen.  Consecutive  presses  of  the  T key will increase the brightness of the gadget, but
              usually the indicator is for the presenter and not for the audience.

AUTHORS

       Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>

SEE ALSO

       pyntor-components(1), pyntor-selfrun(1)